Huanyu GUO, Bhawya JOSHI, & Sisi QIAN: Sea Garden City mixes urban fabric with a variety of landscape elements, including agricultural belts and salt-water filtration ponds, in the production of a self-contained, self-supporting city on the sea.

In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) redefined architecture’s relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor and circulation would be vertically integrated, both frightened his contemporaries and offered a trenchant critique of the dynamics of the capitalist metropolis. Hilberseimer’s Groszstadtarchitektur is presented here for the first time in English translation. . . .

ta (david) YU: The forming of the urban context is based on the existing territory, something that changes slowly, and human activities, which are changing all the time. Due to the non-stop pace of human activities, the urban context remains in a cycle of perpetual negotiation. Like organic tissue, the city is always in a state of growth, decay, and rebirth.

ana STEFANOVIC, andrew MOGYLNYI, claudia STOICA, mahmoud EL HAKIM, sebastian BIAŁKOWSKI, & xintian LI: The Convoluted Corrosion project is the future city concept for Maribor, Slovenia. The main idea of the project is to simulate the future city growth and expansion in the span of 100years. Based on the “Urban Millennium” fact that majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, which is caused by increasing factor of rural-urban migration.